Labour Gains Landslide Victory With Little Increase in Support

Analysis Claiming the biggest majority since 1997, with all but one seat declared on Friday, Labour has won 412 of 650 seats in Parliament. But while the party won almost two-thirds of seats, the overall vote share was only around one-third, the lowest ever vote share for a majority-winning party since 1900. Meanwhile, Reform UK and the Green Party only managed to secure a handful of seats with larger vote shares. Having foreseen the result, Reform leader Nigel Farage has called for electoral change in the run-up to polling day. The Liberal Democrats have been an outlier in this election, with its shares of votes and seats broadly lined up, but the party has also long advocated for proportional representation which it says would make “seats won match votes cast” and facilitate “politicians having to work together.”...